Old Fashioned Gingerbread

Ingredients

• Granulated sugar

  white

  ½ cup or 100g

• Butter

  unsalted

  ½ cup or 114g

• Egg

  whole

  1 medium or 44g

• Molasses

  1 cup or 337g

• Whole wheat flour

  whole-grain

  2 ½ cup or 300g

• Baking soda

  1 ½ tsp or 7g

• Baking powder

  double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate

  1 tsp or 5g

• Cinnamon

  ground

  2 tsp or 5g

• Ground ginger

  1 ½ tsp or 3g

• Cloves

  ground

  1 tsp or 2g

• Water

  1 cup or 237g

Directions

1. Kick the tires and light the fires to 350 degrees.
2. Cream your butter and sugar together. Then add in your egg and the molasses, whichever you chose to use.
3. Whisk your dry ingredients together well in a separate bowl. Slowly blend them into the wet mixture, until just combined. The lowest setting on my mixer does such a great job.
4. When done, take the cup of hot water and add into the mix, combining until it looks like cake batter now, more liquidy.
5. Pour into a well greased and floured 9x9 pan, and tap it to get the bubbles out.
6. Bake at 350 degrees until a knife inserted comes out clean, about 40-50 minutes believe it or not, it takes a long time to bake! But keep an eye on it because everyone's ovens are different. I used my Butter Cream Icing on it which was a perfect sweet foil to the dark molasses flavor.
7. Slice and enjoy.
8. Recipe by: Karlynn Johnston (source: https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/old-fashioned-gingerbread/)